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I’m one of the beta testers, and I just wanted to share some early impressions—and encourage the team behind it.

Lettera genuinely feels like it fills a gap I’ve had for years. Conceptually, I love the idea of lightweight, portable Markdown files, and that approach makes even more sense now that so much of our work involves AI tools, prompts, drafts, research, and text moving between different applications.

I’ve always resisted Obsidian a little. It’s powerful, obviously, but it can quickly become an overwhelming, complex machine—especially if you just want to write, organize notes, and work with your files without building an entire system around them.

On the other end, apps like Typora are great editors, but they don’t feel particularly approachable for people who aren’t hardcore Markdown users.

Lettera seems to hit a really compelling middle ground: the simplicity of a notes app with a vault, while still letting you open and work on individual files whenever you want. No unnecessary friction, no need to over-engineer your workflow—just clean, flexible Markdown.

Honestly, this feels like the kind of app we need in 2026.

Really excited to see where it goes. Keep up the great work, Shiny Frog team.

I really want to love Todoist. Compared with TickTick and other alternatives, I prefer its brand, its European roots, and the way the company feels genuinely embodied by its founder and team.

But as a Mac/iPhone user, two things are deal-breakers for me:

• No simple, native import from Apple Reminders, while Things and TickTick handle this much better.
• No real way to import or integrate iCloud calendars.

That’s a shame, because Todoist gets so much right otherwise. Apple users are often willing to pay for well-designed software, but only if it fits naturally into the ecosystem they already use.

Am I missing a workaround, or is iCloud simply not a priority for Todoist?

I decided to write a book using AI as a core part of the process—not by asking a model to generate a whole novel in one prompt, but through a fairly complex workflow.

I built and maintained multiple Markdown documents to track the story world, character arcs, chronology, continuity, dialogue, themes, and other constraints.

I had several people read the result, including friends and people who work in the field. None of them suspected that AI was the main author of all sentences.

What surprised me is that, when I asked multiple times some of the strongest Claude/Anthropic models (Fable, Sol) to evaluate whether an AI could have produced a book like this, they repeatedly told me it was essentially impossible for an AI to create that kind of coherent, nuanced result.

So I’m wondering:

• Is this simply a limitation of the model’s self-assessment—i.e., it does not reliably understand its own capabilities?
• Is it trained to be cautious and therefore understate what AI-assisted workflows can accomplish?
• Or does a complex human-led process—planning, memory documents, editorial choices, repeated prompting, and revision—create an outcome that is fundamentally different from “AI writing a book” in the usual sense?

I’m not claiming the AI was secretly conscious or deliberately trying to pass as human. But it is strange that it can help produce something people perceive as convincingly human, while also insisting that such a result could not come from AI.

Has anyone else seen this gap between what an AI can help create in practice and what it says it is capable of?

Ok, so after the price update news, I explored some alternatives, and my beloved Claude suggested: "I can scrap your website and rebuild it completely."

I chose Astro + Keystatic after trying to understand what it was and how it worked, and Claude did the work. Everything—photos, videos, blog posts—went through without a single problem. Even migrating from SS 7 to 7.1 has been more complicated.

So yeah, take the time to have a chat with your favorite LLM; it could provide you a suitable solution.

Edit: Cherry on the cake, with Git-hub and Cloudflare you get your new webiste.. for free.

Like many, I got the Pro subscription via my provider almost a year ago. It was my first experience with AI, and I loved it.

In the meantime, I started to work with Claude, but still found lots of value in Perplexity. One was for work projects, and the other for research and quick chats.

Since then, Perplexity's quality has declined. Chats answered very generically, whatever the model I was using. Lately, they pushed me to replace the legacy app (through the App Store) with the computer app, which is slow and clunky.

Working every day with these tools has changed my expectations, or is Perplexity becoming objectively less efficient lately?

The font sizes in the new Raycast app feel much smaller than in V1, and it makes reading noticeably less comfortable. V1 is much more readable.

Are there any plans to add a font size setting, display scaling, or another readability option in a future update ?

I know you have more important things in your backlog. But if you ever get a break between bug fixes have you considered expanding the sound design options a bit?

I find the default sounds a bit "heavy".

Hi,

I was a daily Bear user for two years, up until the new editor launched. At that point, the app no longer matched my needs, so I had to stop using it.

Recently, I needed a Markdown app that works well with Claude and other AI tools. Obsidian ended up being my only real option, mainly because it can work with local folders and plain Markdown files. The problem is that I do not really enjoy using Obsidian, for me, it feels too complex.

I keep thinking about Bear, because in many ways it is still the app I would prefer to use. What I would love is not for Bear to become a traditional file-and-folder app, but simply to support local folders like Obsidian does. In other words, I am not asking for a more complex folder-based interface inside Bear itself. I am asking for the ability to work with Markdown notes stored in local folders on disk, while keeping Bear’s clean and simple experience.

If Bear could do that, it would be close to perfect for modern AI-assisted workflows.

So far, I've been using Claude, especially with CoWork and code, and Perplexity is my all-rounder for quick everyday questions.

Am I missing something regarding what computer can do.?

Raycast says it has started rolling out its new version to a few privileged users. But there have been no leaks on social media presenting the new features.

Do you need to have signed a non-disclosure agreement to access the new Raycast ?

What interesting things does it include besides a redesign ?